The Final Blog

Well it has been a great year with Mr. Stephens and the whole gang (except for Blake). The course has been amazing. This year I was introduced to many different types of programs that I could use to create amazing things. Although I made some poor choices during class sometimes (such as accidentally falling asleep), the class taught me much. For me, probably the most frustrating part of the class was the temperature lab in python. Most of this was probably due to the fact that Python kept on crashing on me and not letting me save my work to my home drive and me ending up redoing the lab about seven or eight times. Also some of the things that we did in Python were kind of bland. However, I find that i like python much more than Java. The final part of the class was also very fun. AppInventor is a creative way to let kids see their work put out in a more practical and fun way. I would like to see this replace Scratch as a starter in the course.  Over the year we did some pretty interesting stuff, like Jeroo and Python. Jeroo was a good gateway between scratch and python because it had both visual elements and actual programming. We should have spent a little bit more time on this because I felt that the time given to us for each lab was a little bit less than i needed. I often got behind and found myself having to work on the weekends to catch up. If this could be improved upon, then in my opinion the course would be perfect. It would offer the perfect challenge for new programmers and would also prove interesting to those that have experience but just want an easier class than AP Computer science.

kapil out for the last time

Comp prgogramming

This week in computer programming we were introduced to what we are going to do for our final. it is an app inventor for android phone. Over the course of two days i went through two of the labs. Based on my progress, this final will be much easier than the last. The base programming skill is much like scratch with a drag and puzzle like mechanism making the programming quite a bit easeier. MOst of the labs are fun little things, like making a kitty purr, and then painting on that kitty. we also made a phone version of wack a mole.

kapil out.